Citations:paulo post futurum


 * 1) a grammatical tense
 * 2) * 1834: Nathaniel Fish Moore, Lectures on the Ancient Greek Language and Literature, p122
 * So likewise the paulo-post-futurum, τετύψομας, is, in fact, the future passive of the verb τετύπω. [¶] Thus all those five tenses, the two futures passive, the two middle, and the paulo-post-futurum, are reduced to one and the same tense — the future passive — and follow the same rule in their formation; but are to be referred to different kindred verbs. [¶] And, as the second futures active and passive, with the two futures middle, and the paulo-post-futurum have no existence as separate tenses, unless in the imagination of grammarians: such is the case also with the second aorists active and middle; which are, in fact, imperfect tenses; the former of the active, the latter of the passive voice.
 * 1) eventually; sometime in the distant future, or possibly never.
 * 2) * 1785–1859: Thomas de Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, p UNKNOWN
 * When a murder is in the paulo-post-futurum tense — not done, not even (according to modern purism) being done, but only going to be done — and a rumour of it comes to our ears, by all means let us treat it morally.
 * 1) * 1879: Benjamin Silliman, American journal of science : v. 1–550 [July 1818]–1845; v. [51]–100 (2 d ser., v. 1–50) 1846 –70; v. 101–150 (3 d ser., v. 1–50) 1871–95; v. 151–200; v. 201– (4 th ser., v. 1–50 ) 1896 –1927, (5 th ser., v. 1– ) 1928, p342
 * A new invention of a really practical character, not a mere “paulo post futurum” invention like many we have heard of lately, has just been made by Mr. E. A. Cowper, the well-known mechanical engineer.
 * 1) * 1914: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, p334
 * —Goggins, you’re the flamingest dirty devil I ever met, do you know.
 * —I had it on my mind to say that, Goggins answered firmly. It did no one any harm, did it?
 * —We hope, Dixon said suavely, that it was not of the kind known to science as a PAULO POST FUTURUM.
 * —Didn’t I tell you he was a smiler? said Temple, turning right and left. Didn’t I give him that name?
 * —You did. We’re not deaf, said the tall consumptive.
 * 1) * 2006: Luke O’Sullivan & Catherine Fuller, The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham — Volume 12: July 1824 to June 1828, p460 (date of original use: 28/xii/1827–16/ii/1828)
 * Constitutional Code30 — the completion of it still in the paulo-post-futurum: but considerable advance made in it since we parted, and the ground of Penal Code, Civil Code, and Procedure gone over.